Phantastic Phantom
Savannah Mudd Leads PAHS Academic Team to Nationals
The globetrotting junior plans to pursue a career in human rights.
Savannah Mudd has the benefit of a broad perspective. The PAHS junior was born in London to an economics professor father and a micro-finance consultant mother and lived in Russia, Georgia, and Arizona before her brainy family (Mudd has a younger brother who’s a freshman at the high school) settled in the Phoenixville area when she was in third grade. Arizona’s loss was the Phoenixville Academic Team’s gain. In November, Mudd, 16, led the group to a sixth place finish in the preliminary round of the National Academic Quiz Tournament and a berth in the organization’s May national championship in Atlanta, Georgia. Last month from the office of PAHS, Mudd explained that what separates a national championship caliber academic team from a …
